Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Shock

(In the resuscitation room of the Emergency Department.)

"Oh, this is horrible. He must have bled a lot. What is his blood pressure?" The doctor was examining an unconscious young patient just arrived and was obviously soaked in blood.

"Eighty over forty; pulse one-thirty." The nurse replied.

"Thank god we have a drip running. Let's give him some blood." The doctor ordered while looking for the site of bleeding.

"Hang on. We do not agree." An unexpected voice emerged behind the curtain. The doctor looked up. Two middle age man appeared besides the bed. One of them had a face like a monkey, and the other was full of grey hair.

"Who are you?" The doctor asked.

"We are his brothers." The monkey-face man said, pointing to the patient.

The doctor somehow hallucinated this man was smiling.

"Oh, my god - I mean oh, I see," the doctor tried to conceal his surprise, "Your younger brother has bleeding from somewhere. He must have lost one third, if not more, of all his blood. We need to give him transfusion, or he may die."

"Fxxk, we know - we are doctors ourselves," the man with much grey hair spoke with the voice of a wolf, "We've given him a shot of erythropoietin injection - his hemoglobin will increase a few months later."

(To be continued.)

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